Bones

Question 1

What are the bones of the neurocranium?

Answer 1

Frontal, parietal (pair), occipital, sphenoid, ethmoid, temporal (pair)

Question 2

What are the four suture lines of the cranium?

Answer 2

Sagittal, squamosal, coronal, lambdoid

Question 3

The occipital bone has what openings?

Answer 3

Foramen magnum, hypoglossal canals, jugular foramen

Question 4

What nerve passes through the hypoglossal canal?

Answer 4

CN XII hypoglossal

Question 5

What nerve passes through the jugular foramen?

Answer 5

CN IX glossopharyngeal

Question 6

What nerve passes through the foramen rotundum of the sphenoid bone?

Answer 6

CN V maxillary division

Question 7

What neve passes through the foramen ovale of the sphenoid bone?

Answer 7

CN V mandibular division

Question 8

What nerve passes through the stylomastoid foramen of the temporal bone?

Answer 8

CN VII

Question 9

What nerve passes through the petrotympanic fissure?

Answer 9

CN VII

Question 10

What are the bones of the face?

Answer 10

Mandible, vomer, maxilla, palatin, zygomatic, nasal, lacrimal, and inferior conchae

Question 11

What are alveolar processes?

Answer 11

These are the horseshoe shaped part of the mandible (or maxillae) that surround tooth roots

Question 12

Palatal process (right and left) together with palatine bones form what?

Answer 12

The hard palate

Question 13

The palatine bones have what two foramina?

Answer 13

Greater and lesser palatine foramina

Question 14

Vomer bone forms what?

Answer 14

Part of nasal septum

Question 15

Nasal bones form what?

Answer 15

Bony bridge of nose

Question 16

Lacrimal bones hold what?

Answer 16

Tear glands

Question 17

Inferior turbinate provide what?

Answer 17

Provides greater mucosa area on lateral nasal passageways

Question 18

The hyoid bone attaches what two muscles?

Answer 18

Supra- and infrahyoid muscles